I had Twilight pinned to the ground, she was struggling under my grasp, but it was useless, I saw her horn starting to glow a bit, but I put my hoof on her scalp and applied pressure. Instantly, the horn stopped glowing and she stopped struggling. She sighed, and I got off her, she started to trot over to her saddle bags where an open book was waiting.

I walked up to her and said in a playful tone, "Come on Twilight, let's try again I'm sure you'll get me this time."

She didn't turn her attention from the book and said, a little bit frustrated, "you say that every time and every time I do try again you pin me down as usual!"

It's been about two weeks since I convinced the Holders of Harmony to join my cause. Unfortunately Luna's guards have gone back to Canterlot just like I said, and we are unsure why daytime is even still around, but knowing her, I would guess that she wouldn't just take over like that. She would do it silently and slowly, which thankfully gives us some time. I've managed to set up a little home in the clouds, above the lake which is near Fluttershy's abandon cottage.

Everypony is working to their best to prepare for the up-coming battle, and they all seem to have adjusted to me quite well, except for Rainbow Dash who won't even speak to me, and I can see why. Applejack and Rainbow have trained a little with us, but so far it's only really me and Twilight. Rarity is nowhere to be seen, and truthfully I don't blame her, she doesn't seem like the fighting type, and took quite a bit of convincing from Twilight to come into the battle with us. Eventually she said yes, and started to improve her magical skills.

Pinky Pie is the only one who isn't going to fight; she said it's against her nature. I was trying to convince her to help us, but she wouldn't budge, she said to me, "Sorry Adomia I just find violence not part of who I am. It's just something I couldn't do, but don't think I'm not going to help at all. I heard you're going to need supplies and I'm just the pony to suit that job." Pinky told me that one of her family friends is a blacksmith, able to make just about anything.

When I asked her how she knew him she said, "Wellllll… first off it's a she, and second my dad and her were close once," she paused for a second and then continued, "while she was also friends with my dad, she also became friends with the family pretty quick, then our family was told we had to move the rock farm to another piece of land, and we wouldn't see her anymore. On that final day she said, 'Pinky if you ever need anything, come find me,' she told me the location of her forge. Don't worry I've already talked to her and she said she would be glad to help, so tell me anything you need and I'll see if she can make it for you." Then she bounced off and went back to the Sugarcube Corner.

I've already placed some orders for us; I've ordered some metal greaves for Applejack, along with some steel horseshoes, since her legs are her strongest muscles. She requested that she had no other armor besides that, she said, "Ah don't think ah need that fancy armor stuff, it'd just slow me down."

When I tried to ask Rainbow what she would need for armor she just ignored me completely, so I just settled on getting her traditional guard armor, steel armor working much like a turtle's shell, covering the topside and includes a helmet, however it does leave the legs and underside unguarded. I've already gotten my armor, which is made from leather and charcoal colored, I ordered it to cover my body and most of my legs, except leaving a little room for my back hoof's, and leaving plenty of room on my forelegs. Twilight and Rarity aren't getting any armor, since it would block their magical flow.

I've thought about getting myself another hidden blade, and decided to order the same leather gauntlet and steel blade as my first one. But when I got it, I realized that I had no idea how my blade works. I mean, it just came out on my will (usually when I flicked my hoof back a little), but Luna was the one who gave it to me in the first place, and there is no string or spring attached to it for it to pop out. If that wasn't bad enough, I still haven't found a way to block magic. In the time spent training with Twilight which was just sparring and her trying out different types of spells, I realized I was completely vulnerable to Levitation and Root spells. We've searched the Ponyville library for some book on how to counter magic, but have found none. Twilight however taught me a bit on how magic works, she said that while the magic is in the horn, it's channeled in the brain, and then brought throughout the body in a way that the brain decides. Now knowing this, I learned about a spot where the loose magic is being brought into the brain, and by applying pressure on that spot, (Which is their scalp) it stops the flow, and causes them to lose whatever spell they were preparing. It might be possible to use this on Luna, but I'm unsure.

I thought about Twilight's explanation on magic again, and asked her, "Twilight, if the magic comes from the horn, but is channeled and a spell is thought up in the brain. Then would it be possible for anypony to use it?"

She thought about it for a second and stopped reading her book and stood up, and said, "Still on that? Like I said before yes, but the main question is. How would that pony get that magic, and how would the pony know how to use it."

"How would that pony get that magic." that was the question that was lingering in my mind, could I possibly use Luna's own magic against her? If so, how can I redirect it?

Twilight saw me thinking about it quite hard, and interrupted with, "I feel like we might be able to find something if we checked the Canterlot library."

Possibly, I thought, but I can't even set hoof into the city, but I am aware of the library's secret archive. Which contained many diaries of assassin's as well as other famous ponies, and even some forbidden arts? Maybe, we could find the answer to our problems there?

I turned to Twilight and said, "Twilight, Do you know about the secret Canterlot Library Archive?"

She seemed to be curious about this, most likely because of her love of books. She turned to me and said, "No, what archive?"

I was surprised by this, Even Celestia's prized pupil doesn't know about it? Well then, that gives me all the more reason to go check it out.

While I was thinking about this Twilight impatiently nudged me and said, "Hellooooo, anypony home?"

I got out of my thoughts and said, "Sorry, just lost in thought, but about the secret Archive. It's a medium sized room under the floorboards of the Canterlot library and only three ponies know about it, Luna, Celestia, and me. There's a certain combination you need to input to enter, the reason I know about it is because most of the diaries of past assassin's are in there, and when I was under Luna's wing growing up-"

She interrupted me and exclaimed, "Wait, you knew Luna when you were younger!?"

I nodded my head, "yup, she was the one who trained me to become an assassin, even when
she was still the 'Mare in the Moon,' now-"

She interrupted me again and questioned, "But, how?! I mean, I knew you were trained, but not by the princess of the night herself! But, you said she was still the 'Mare in the Moon,' so if she wasn't actually there, how did you receive training from her?"

I became a bit irritated and said, "Look Twilight there's a lot you don't know about me, and I would love to tell you my life's story later, but right now we need to focus on the matter at hand, so stop being such a curious egghead and let me finish."

This caused her to cringe a bit, and she sat down and say, "Sorry" almost inaudibly, and her cheeks started to get a little red.

I felt a little bad, and I replied, "Hey, it's OK, it's just your nature to be curious, nothing wrong with that."

I thought this would clear up her cheeks, but the redness spread to her face. I felt a little awkward, and said, "Yeah…. I'm going to head to the library now to see if I can find anything of use, catch you later."

I put on my cloak that I had left near her bags, and left the embarrassed Twilight Sparkle for the open dusk sky, I thought about what had just happened, and I had some strange feeling again. However this time I felt like I wanted to… Comfort her and be close to her and- Gah! What are you thinking Adomia! I slapped my hooves to my face, which threw me a little off balance, and I started to fall. However the rushing air soothed my mind, and as I was about to hit the ground I redirected my wings to catch the air. Back high into the sky, as a Pegasus should be.
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I arrived at the outer wall of Canterlot, and day changed to night. I opened up a sewer grate, and climbed through the murky water, and Equine feces. The journey wasn't long and I popped out of the sewer grate where I escaped Luna nearly a month ago.

Scanning the area I found that there was one of Luna's guards, guarding the door as vigilant as Celestia's Honor Guards.

OK, now I'm REALLY curious, there just has to be something in that library that would be of use to us, I mean, why would Luna take the time to send one of her guards to guard a library? I thought.

Flying a little bit up I managed to get above the guard who was only looking ahead of him; unsheathing my blade I fell down and jammed it right into his head. He didn't even see me coming; even his helmet which was made of steel didn't help.
"May my blade give you peace on this black night" I said and closed his eyes; at least he should rest a little bit in peace.

I dragged his body into the sewer and let it float away, turning back my attention to the library, I tried the door and it was locked. I sighed and unsheathed my blade again, this time jamming it into the lock and proceeded to turn it until I heard a satisfying, click!

Piece of cake. I said to myself.

Opening the door I saw that there was barely light coming into the old building, but since I've had worked in the night for so long my eyes have learned to adjust to the low-level lighting. Slowly trotting in I made my way to an old trapdoor in one of the corners. Putting my hoof to the handle I thought about the combination I would need for entering, let's see, if I remember right it went… Up, down, left, right, in, out, turn 90 degrees to the right, in, out, and then turn 90 degrees to the left… Aha!

I did these actions, and was greeted by an opening trapdoor. Dropping down the small hole, I landed, and torches burst into life, now how does that work? I thought, I remember those torches being there many times before, but I now wonder, what is making those torches light? Fire wasn't even in the torches; it was just balls of light. I ignored this and started to look among the old bookshelves, looking through some of the old diaries I would read it had nothing on blocking or absorbing magic.

After looking for what seemed like a solid hour, I sighed and thought, maybe, there's nothing in here at all that can help us. I turned to leave, a bit sad that I couldn't find anything, but I heard a noise behind me, and a book fell to the floor. Trotting over I picked it up and flipped through some of the pages, it seemed to be a guide to some magical art called, Enchanting. I stopped and a smile spread across my face when I saw what one of the pages title was.

Enchantment: Absorb Minor Magic.

I went out of the room and closed the door, book in my mouth. I flew back to the field to find that Twilight had already left; I shrugged and flew towards her library home. I landed on her balcony and was about to enter when I saw her talking to her dragon assistant.

I got a little bit closer and was able to make out what they were saying

"I don't know Spike, maybe it's wrong since he's a criminal, but I just can't stop-" She stopped speaking as I opened the door.

She saw me and yelled, "Haven't you ever heard of knocking!" She also got another complete face blush.

I trotted over to her and said in a reassuring tone, "Look calm down, I wasn't there for very long, so I barely heard anything." She sighed in relief and I continued, "I came over here to give you a book that could be very useful to us."

Her blush faded, and she got a curious look in her eye, she rushed over to pick the book out of my hoof. She looked inside for about thirty seconds and said, "Enchanting? Adomia, I've seen something like this before, many times throughout Equine history, but Enchanting was banned about 500 years ago, due to a lot of bad things involving bad ponies becoming very powerful. All the books on it were burned, and thankfully it has died off. I don't know, this could be very risky for us…" She trailed off, and I said to her

"Twilight, in a time like this we need to take risks, and I saw an Enchant that could absorb magic. This could be very vital if we are to beat Luna!" She was about to say something, but I cut her off, "look, we don't need to decipher it right now, just look it over tomorrow during training." I turned and slowly trotted out to the balcony, and unfurled my wings, "Good Night, Twilight." I said.

I flew off back to my little cloud home and jumped into the soft bed, and fell asleep.
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The next morning I woke up to a friendly call by Twilight, "Adomia wake up! Come on, we don't need to waste the entire day away!" Taking an apple with me, and the other hidden blade I flew out of my house and landed perfectly on the ground below. Twilight put down her saddle bags in the place she always put them, and I was about to ask her if she looked over the book, but judging from the bags under her eyes, and not so perfect mane I think that answered the question.

She lay out on the soft grass, and I looked at my apple and offered it to her. She giggled a little bit and said cheerily, "Oh, no thanks I ate before I came here."
I was surprised at how happy she was, even though she looked really tired. I said, "I'm guessing you looked over the book on Enchanting?"

She nodded her head and said, "yes, and I have found a bunch of them that would help you, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash. Now, for you I found two enchants you would need, one is to give inanimate objects a function, and the other is the same one you found last night, the Enchant of Minor Magic Absorb."

I was happy when she told me this, since I now knew how Luna was able to make my hidden blade come out at will, and the other one was just what I was looking for.

"However" I turned my attention to Twilight again, "The enchants do require some herbs and other supplies in order to make them work, but they do indeed last forever."

"Alright then," I said matter-o-factly, "show me what we need."

The list of supplies Twilight needed for the three of us required the crystal called Amethyst, Rose, Cave Moss, and Wolf's Bane. She said that, the enchants she would perform are the least required. what a stroke of luck, but I wonder how powerful the other enchants are? I thought.

We went to Rarity's first to get some Amethyst since we both knew she likes jewels as much as fashion, she was a bit reluctant to give some away for free, but a cold look from me and Twilight changed her mind and gave us a few of the purple crystals. Finding rose was quite easy since it is all over Ponyville, I had to stay in the shadows while Twilight bought some from a local flower gardener. Finally we needed the Cave Moss and Wolf's Bane; Twilight said she knew a zebra out in the Everfree Forest that would have some of these.

When we arrived to a small hollowed out tree, a zebra covered in golden rings on her right foreleg and neck greeted us warmly, "Greetings young Twilight, and your friend too, what brings you here, do you need a healing brew?"

I was wondering why she was rhyming, but decided to keep my mouth shut, Twilight nodded her head in respect and said, "Actually Zecorah, we are looking for Wolf's Bane and Cave Moss. Do you happen to have some?"

The zebra called Zecorah nodded and said, "Yes I do, but tell me now, with such a deadly plant like Wolf's Bane, what do plan to do?"

Twilight looked at me as if saying "Help me!" I decided to speak up, and said,

"Uh… Zecorah is it? We need these plants to help with some magical spells, and these are required if the spell is to work."

She seemed to be satisfied by this answer and went into her small home and came out about a minute later, with a small pack, which had the plants we needed, "Here you go my friends, and do come back again."
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It was dusk after our little reagent scavenger hunt, and we picked up Applejack and Rainbow Dash along the way, and filled them in on what had recently happened, they also brought along with them their little bits of armor.

"Now," Twilight said, "Applejack the enchant, or magic enhancement, I'm giving to your greaves is a little something called, Enchant of the Rose Prick, this should make your armor painful to even touch."

Applejack nodded and said, "Let 'er rip!"

Twilight put the Rose near the metal greaves and horseshoes, and started to concentrate, her horn started to glow a bright purple, and two little strands of magic started to push the Rose and greaves together. After about five minutes of concentration the spell broke and what was left was metal greaves with very sharp steel thorns going down the sides, even the horseshoes were affected, and had grown two sharp thorns on the front and back.

I was shocked by this and was getting quite excited; I shook Twilight and exclaimed, "You did it! You performed a magical task that probably hasn't been done for 500 years!"

She was breathing heavily and managed to wheeze out, "yeah… I guess I did."

I instantly felt concern for her well being when I heard that, since it looked like it drained a lot out of her already tired body, I was about to say something when she said, "Alright Rainbow, you're up, the enchant I'm going to give you is an enchant called, Amethyst's Strength, it says that this will give make your armor tougher, and also give you a bit of extra strength when wearing it, but it will make you a bit heavier, OK?"

She acknowledged this with a nod and said with a cocky look on her face, "what you need me to be even more powerful than I already am? Alright then, if you want me to blow away Luna's guards in ten seconds flat. Then go right ahead" When she said this she shot me a menacing glance, as if saying, "So I can use it on you, and blow you away in ten seconds flat."

Twilight put the purple crystal near the standard armor and repeated the process, however this time it took about ten minutes before the spell ended. What was left was a complete set of purple crystal armor, not an inch of steel was left, and it glowed a bit. Looking over at Twilight I saw her panting hard, and she looked like she was about to faint. She tried to pull out my other hidden blade, but she dropped it and I went over to her and picked it up, but I didn't give it to her.

Instead I said, "You look completely drained, you should go home and get some well deserved rest, OK?"

She was about to argue, but I cut her off, "That's not an option, I'm saying there will be no more business for today."

She sighed, knowing she had been defeated, but couldn't help but contain hint of relief in her sigh. I turned to the other two, "Same with you two, we just brought you along to keep you in the loop and enchant your armor, but be ready, the battle is almost upon us. I hope you two will be prepared?"

Applejack stood up and nodded, I could see a fire in her green eyes as she looked at me. Rainbow Dash got up and just flew off, that scared me a little bit, I hope she'll be loyal to us during the battle, I've already faced enough betrayal, I don't need any more.

Applejack saw this and said reassuringly, "Don't worry hayseed, she'll be fine when the time comes, it's just that Fluttershy was very important to her. They were friends since they were fillies, she'll come around." With that she galloped away, I turned to talk to Twilight, but she was asleep!

I laughed a little at this, Good Night, you little egghead, I thought. I was halfway from my home when I felt the same feeling I felt the day before, I went over to her and proceeded to put her sideways on my back. She didn't even wake up at all, jeez… sleeping like a rock

I felt her deep breathing as I carried her and her saddlebags back to her Library home, by the time we got into Ponyville dusk had already changed to night, and thankfully all the other ponies were asleep so I didn't need to worry about stealth, I managed to wing my way up to her balcony and opened the door.

I placed her down on her bed, and just stared at her. I was feeling the same feeling that I had yesterday all throughout the journey back, I felt my heart beating like a drum, and adrenaline was pumping through my veins, much like that night when I killed Fluttershy. I couldn't really think straight and my instinct told me to get closer, I inched a little bit forward, then another, then another until I was right next to her. I felt my heart beating faster, as I felt my own face start to blush; I bent down toward her muzzle, and inched very close, until I could feel her warm breath on my face. I was about to do something I would never even consider when I heard Spike snort really loud. This knocked me out of my trance and I immediately backed away and flew off the balcony.

When I got home I put my other hidden blade on the ground and jumped into the bed. I spent a good time thinking about what had just happened, I put my hooves in my face and groaned very loud into them. Adomia, you're an assassin, a cold-blooded, fearless killer. Now is not the time to be experiencing... some... sort of disorder!

Eventually I dropped the thoughts and fell asleep, still curious to as why I wanted to... kiss her.

To Be Continued…

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